Talking Cancer Blues

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I was sitting in the back yard sucking on a Good Humor
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Along comes a Doc, says my wife has a tumor
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And it was malignant

[Verse 2]
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Now the AMA and the medical highers
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They don't agree with Liggette & Meyers
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They say smoking is bad for you, it'll give you cancer
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          Hell of a cough, too

[Verse 3]
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Well, there is cancer of the liver; there is cancer of the lung
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Cancer of the lip, the throat, the tongue
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There's 17 malignant tumors in one filter tip king size
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   Now light up

[Verse 4]
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Well, a cigarette was needed that was relatively clean
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They come out with filters, low tars & nicotine
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(Pretty low on sales, too!)      All that research gone to waste
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No harmful ingredient, no cigarette taste

[Verse 5]
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Well, the companies panicked, they had to find an answer
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They increased the tobacco strain and everybody's getting cancer
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Look what I got free with these cigarette coupons
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   A chest X-ray

[Verse 6]
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Well, the hashish interest in Mexico
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Has found a way to redouble their dough
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They got a weed!
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Has no tar, so they say
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Let's all get the habit,            marijuana's here to stay
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So if you want a treat and you don't mind the treatment
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Smoke pot!
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It's the thinking man's cigarette!